Saddam Hussein’s verdict was recently postponed
By on Oct 27th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
Saddam Hussein’s verdict was recently postponed
until November 5, two days before the U.S. election. Media Matters asks: Will the media turn a skeptical eye?
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No. They’ll be too busy talking about Osama’s endorsement of the democrats.
Or was that last election?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:07 pmSurprise!
Although reminding voters all about the debacle in Iraq right before the election doesn’t sound so smart.
http://www.theworstpresidentever.org
October 27th, 2006 at 3:16 pmBest campaign slogan of 06′.
Bush cut and ran from Af-ghan-is-tan.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:17 pmin a word, no.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:18 pmSo Rove’s October surprise is that it’s in November!
October 27th, 2006 at 3:21 pmIs the media avoiding the Webb pervert story too?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:23 pmDoesn’t that also coincide with the day that Mark Foley gets out of rehab?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:24 pmNext thing the’re going to tell us is that the verdict is….
October 27th, 2006 at 3:27 pmInnocent of all charges, oh, and by the way, he’s still the president of Iraq, we’ll see y’all later, bye bye, have a nice decade…
Bush wanted to have Saddam hanged publicly before the election, but was unable to do it, so Rove has influenced the Iraqi judge to announce a sentence of death for Saddam just before November 7th election!
October 27th, 2006 at 3:28 pmSadam will be found guilty of having nothing to do with 9-11.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:28 pmSaddam is on trial for crimes committed prior to this adventure into Iraq. Will the Republican party be able to show that these crimes are proof that we did the right thing?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:30 pm#6
Why is what Webb wrote in novels in any way relevant to anything?
Cheney’s daughter wrote lesbian sex scenes in her book, Gingrich has sex scenes in his, etc., etc.
Who cares?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:30 pmthis is no October or November Surprise… this will have minimal impact on the election, because the American care about the progress of the war, how long it’s going to last, and how many more of our people are going to die during it… Saddam’s trial is just taking care of old business… if it were Osama on trial, well, that’s a different matter…
October 27th, 2006 at 3:30 pmNovember could be a busy month for the every one. Let’s see, if we are lucky and rove isn’t allowed to run the diebold voting machines a lot of rep’s may be packing and going off for unemployment check’s…….Foley will be back in the new’s along with Sadam, interesting….Blessings, we are gonna need them.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:31 pmNo, the media won’t turn a skepical eye. Duh.
It’s interesting that in Iraq they give court verdicts on a Sunday.
Apparently the October surprise is that it’s now a November surprise.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:32 pmSurprise!!
OK, so what does that say about Rummy & Cheney claiming the insurgents are “trying to influence the midterm elections?”
Seems to me this is aimed at influencing the midterms, but in favor or the GOP, not the Dems!
Obviously the GOP is the party manipulating Iraq for political purposes… but it’s always the same thing with this crowd: if they say one thing you can bet they mean the opposite.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:33 pmRoger, They will do as many stories on webb novel as they did on Libby’s (kids having sex with anamal’s) novel
October 27th, 2006 at 3:35 pmGee, what will the verdict be?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:36 pmA guilty verdict was a no-brainer all along. The MSM will jump on it if he’s found innocent. Rove’s Oct/Nov surprise would be if BushCo reinstalled Saddam to run the country.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:36 pmSteve…an old troll trick to DISTRACT from the topic….
October 27th, 2006 at 3:38 pmShouldn’t Sadam be on trial in IRAQ?…oh..to dangerious there..hmmm
Is the media avoiding the Allen divorce story, too?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:39 pmGee, what will the verdict be?
Comment by ForTruth
TP should start a pool.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:39 pm#12,
The fact that Webb writes novels about fathers that stick there sons penis in there mouth is very important to the race. The fact that he writes novels about degrading women and calling asian people “dog faced” is very important. I wouldn’t want someone like that representing me. It degrades the entire state.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:40 pmWriting a novel with simple sex scenes is one thing. Writing novels about 4 year old boys that have fathers that sexual abuse them is a whole new league of wrong. Of course Thinkprogress and all the other left-wing media (old and new) sure won’t mess with this story. They don’t care about 1 canidates ethics, they only care about getting Pelosi in Power. It is sad really.
The “guilty on all counts” verdict will be announced with much Republican fanfare. It won’t matter that Saddam had no WMDs and had no connection with 9/11. Republicans will be dancing in the streets and speaking in tongues.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:41 pmIs the media avoiding the Allen divorce story, too?
Comment by Roger_Roger
George & Gracie? No way! They’ll be together forever…
October 27th, 2006 at 3:42 pmI occasionally like a penis in my mouth.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:44 pmOk, I don’t like Rogerx2 any better than anyone else, but hijacking his name is out of line.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:45 pmRog,
October 27th, 2006 at 3:46 pmHave you actually read the Webb book?
Sadaam is GUILTY………..of the very same things as George W. Bush
October 27th, 2006 at 3:47 pm#23
Didn’t he write about what he saw in Viet Nam?
I could be wrong.
Either way, my question still stands, who cares?
http://www.theworstpresidentever.org
October 27th, 2006 at 3:55 pmTP should start a pool.
Comment by Zooey
So we can use it to start waterboarding the trolls.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:55 pmWell, they say timing is everything.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:58 pm“argh, I can almost reach that last straw. Webb is a a a a ped…nope can’t grasp it, it is clearly out of my (intellectual) reach.” –Roger Roger.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:59 pmI’d like to know the scheduled trial date for George W. Bush.
I think it’s highly doubtful that Dubya will be giving a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous, Reagan-esque speech as Air Force One is being fueled with EXXXXXXX$$$$$$$$$ON oil to fly him one last time to his Texas ranch. It ain’t going to happen, but I could visualize President-elect Clinton whispering in his ear,” Lips, read my lips. I’ve got more brains in my little finger than your entire lying, dishonest, morally-corrupt, incompetent, deceitful family.
How could the worst president in U. S. history serve a full two terms?
One very possible scenario is that Dubya will eventually be run of out of Washington. This scoundrel will be found somewhere in a desolate area of Texas with a brief case stuffed with one trillion dollars and nice, glossy pictures of stuff-muffin, Jeff Gannon. Dubya will be bearded, smelly, speaking in tongues to God, IN A 12 FOOT HOLE, and with a gun clenched to his chest.
John
October 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pmRoger, Roger only knows what Fox News is spreading around today . He’s like the rest of the dittoheads,believes everything on Fox.People like him are what you call,”Repeaters”, Roger the Repeater. The smell of desperation, clouds out everything else in their tiny,picayune brains,which are located were Rushs Anal Cyst is!
October 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pmGod damned Christian terrorists
It used to be that Christians would at least _pretend_ to be human. Now these god damned Christian terrorists traitors don’t even bother.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:06 pm#37…makes sense his name after all is Roger…Roger…Roger…Roger_Roger.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:09 pm#34,
Actually,
They only do that to children under the age of 1. Webb wrote of a 4 year old boy. Basically, he wrote a book endorsing child molesting. I simply wouldn’t want that type of person representing me. I wouldn’t want Foley representing me either. Thankfully, Foley was smart and simply resigned. Is Webb planning on dropping out of the race? It doesn’t matter anyways. All you Dems were very quick to point out that you don’t endorse nor want people even kinda like Foley in office. I’ll take that to mean you would never dream of voting for scum like Webb. Also, Foley didn’t actually have sex with young boys either, he only “wrote” about it just like Webb.
Also, thanks for hijacking my name #26. It doesn’t suprise me from this crowd.
You blast Repugs for the Foley scandal as you should. I hope you don’t turn into hypocrits on this one though. You better be asking the Dems to drop Webb from the ticket or you just look like power hungary fools.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:14 pmThey only do that to children under the age of 1. Webb wrote of a 4 year old boy.
Let me help you out here. Webb wrote about them practicing a ritual. Foley actually practiced that ritual.
God, a ten year old can see the freakin’ difference.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:18 pmAccording to RRooggeerr, all psychiatrists, the writers for National Geographic, the people in SE Asia that practice this ritual should all belocked up. What about the priests and rabbis that perform circumcision. I mean Roger, they touch the penis of the little baby boy. Should they be considered molestors and deviants too?
October 27th, 2006 at 4:32 pmQuotes from Webbs Porno Novels:
“A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.â€
“Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina.”
“[He] could see Jawbone and Ashley Asthmatic [two guards at a Vietnamese prison camp] napping together in the grass. They faced inward, their arms entwined. It looked like they were masturbating each other. It didn’t surprise him. … It was common to see men holding hands, embracing, playing with each other. Some of them [the guards] had wanted him. He could tell in those evanescent moments between his bao cao bow, the obligatory deference when a guard entered his cell, and the first word or blow that followed it… Quick, grinding voices, turgid with repressed passion. An exploratory reaching of the hand near his groin…â€
“Nurse Goodbody, dark and voluptuous (Lenahan had forgotten her actual name, it was something long and Italian), was a bedtime friend to many of the doctors in Bethesda. She had hinted to Lenahan that she simply could not contain herself. Doctors tending to patients, she explained, aroused her. Morphine Mary (again Lenahan could not remember her exact name) was a thin, nervous drill sergeant type, a disciplinarian who did not allow her patients even to complain. Lenahan was convinced that Morphine Mary did not even sleep with her husband. She wasn’t bad looking, he mused again, staring at her thin frame. If she’d just get laid every now and then she’d mellow out and stop being such a damn witch.â€
“[Fogarty] has been thinking of the firm, springy skin and the sweet smells of a young Filipina woman named Maria in whose bed he had spent three nights almost twenty years ago. . . . She was a deliciously bad young woman. . . . On the second night, he had brought her a box of Godiva chocolates . . . . he had awakened to find her in the bathroom, sitting on the toilet with her knees underneath her chin, eating chocolates and counting her rosary beads as she prayed.”
“We’re on our way to becoming the world’s recreational center, a nation [USA] not to be taken seriously. Where are we still the undisputed leader? Music. Movies. Fast food. Drugs. . . . the billboards fifty years from now as you come over the bridge and stop at the tollbooths outside Manhattan: A smiling beautiful naked woman, and the sign saying AMERICAN ASS IS OUR MOST IMPORTANT PRODUCT.”
“He saw the invitation with every bouncing breast and curved hip. . . . He was thirteen. . . . She was fifteen . . . . In a few moments she drew him to her and he murmured in his quiet voice, ‘I am still small.’ ‘You are large enough,’ she answered. And he found he was.”
“… that is, if you knew who your sister was, Brustein, and if she’d been born with anything between her legs except an asshole, I’d be happy to bring some class to your low-rent name by knocking the bitch up.â€
You honestly want someone who writes filth like this in your party? I don’t care if this guy was a Dem or a Repug. He is trash and no one should back him. Any repug that writes like this I also wouldn’t want in office. It is disgusting and humiliating to women everywhere.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:34 pmWhere is Foley? What’s the name of the rehab facility? I suppose he’s on a beach somewhere.
I can just see it now. Pictures of Jim Beam bottles are displayed to him, and he receives jolts of electricity. Pictures of stud-muffin, Jeff Gannon, are displayed to him and he receives jolts of electricity. Pictures of Britney Spears are displayed to him and he’s encouraged to say, “Praise Jesus.”
I bet on November 7th Foley is going to get plastered. I hope he brought a briefcase full of liquor to his rehab facility. He’ll need it, when the election results are in.
John
October 27th, 2006 at 4:39 pmFoley gets out of rehab next week. He will be news history by 11/7.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:41 pmSaddam gets sentenced two days before the election —
But the media will not be skeptical about the timing of the delayed sentencing – they are skeptical of nothing. They will be parroting the Republiscum talking points about how the Democrats may win the House even though they are “soft on terror”. Or that Democrats may take the House despite their not having a “plan” to get out of Iraq.
See, the media ignore the plans of the Democrats, they ignore their proposals on Iraq, and they frame all comments and reports as the Republiscum skew them.
The Democrats will win the House DESPITE the Republiscum lies and the media skewing the news reports in Republiscum favor by default.
Lynn Cheney writes steamy novels about lesbian sex.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:48 pmGingrich write about sex, and is a three-time adulterer.
Bennet writes about virture and he is a gambling addict.
O’Reilly writes trashy novels about sex, and is a pervert in rel life.
See, if the Republiscum do it, it’s OK. It’s only when Democrats write, that it’s not OK.
Only Republiscum can tell lies about war heroes and get away with it.
(Kerry, Cleland, Duckworth, et al.)
Only Republiscum declare themselves moral authorities.
Only Republiscum allow themselves to rewrite laws and revise history for political gain.
Roger Roger,
You seem to have a circuit loose..one who writes about crime and one who commits it are different…
who are/would you voting/vote for in that election?
October 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pm#49,
What is the Dem’s plan to win in Iraq by the way? Are you guys simply planning a change in tactics in Iraq? Are you planning on adding more troops? Are you planning on more money or new ways to deal with Iraq’s new leaders? What is your plan for victory in that country? I have yet to hear any plan other then to leave, which means lose. What is your plan for victory?
October 27th, 2006 at 4:49 pmand the Repbulican’s plan is what roger…please do tell!
October 27th, 2006 at 4:53 pm#59 P.S.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:03 pmI forgot to add Scooter Libby wrote novels about pedophiila.
Well Roger-Roger I am appaled you felt compelled to post that trash here..What doe’s that say about you.? I have not read this garbage nor bought the trash book’s and from now on won’t read you’re post’s either..
October 27th, 2006 at 5:03 pmThe Democrats plan for Iraq has been out there for months, as well as their plan for domestic programs.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:04 pmIn fact, the plans have been here on TP, but Repugs, nor the media, care to read anything except the propaganda from the right.
#47
That’s a porno novel? It sounds more like a Dairy Queen commerical. Banana splits? Whipped cream? Sooooooo randy and lusty.
Oh, baby! My loins are on fire.
Mark Foley should have been reading this stuff. I’m sure his loins would have been on fire, too.
John
October 27th, 2006 at 5:09 pmThere will be no victory in Iraq – that is clear, and anyone who thinks there will be the traditional parades, flag-waving Iraqis, and pacification by Americans is hopelessly unrealistic.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:10 pmWhat we hope to come to is a satisfactory solution with American soldiers redeployed to nearby areas, and Iraq under autonomous and complete control.
Unfortunately the Bush plan has been to destroy everything he touches, and reduce the country into a state of civil war – not only Sunni against Shia, but Shia against Shia, with the introduction of outside terrorists into the mix. The Kurds already consider themselves independent, although the Iraqi government does not – and that is another smoldering issue.
Is the rigging of Diebold and other electronic machines what Rove was referring to when he said he knows the real “math.”
October 27th, 2006 at 5:11 pmMarie, it’s more like this
October 27th, 2006 at 5:14 pmThat means he wrote what he was thinking
Oooh thoughtcrime.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:15 pmSharon,
It’s a free country, so feel free to not read my posts. Of course those quotes are trash just like Webb. Anyone who supports Webbs and anyone who doesn’t ask him to leave the race is also trash. Just like Hasert is trash for covering up the Foley mess.
People like this have no place in politics.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:44 pm#54
Options:
1. Stay the course– whatever the cost.
2. A Billy Graham Crusade, with Wayne Newton singing, ‘Amazing Grace.’ Muslim souls will be converted to Christianity. Iraq problem solved!!!!
3. An immediate withdrawl
5. Islam televangelists, dressed in designer clothes and living in multi-million dollar estates, encouraging viewers to send money to them. That’s the real answer. We have our own televangelists, and why can’t they have these nuts, too.
6. Diplomatic negotiations
The war would be justified, if the premise of the war was based on truth and not fiction. The reasons for the war keep changing. Listen to what this administration is saying. The reasons keep changing day-to-day.
John
October 27th, 2006 at 5:53 pm#63 TtT
October 27th, 2006 at 6:20 pmThanks, That’s exactly what I was referring to.
Katie’s already picking out which shoes to wear!!
October 27th, 2006 at 6:43 pmI do not care what they do with this guy and I am hard pressed to find anyone who does, and don’t forget that our govt sanctioned everything he did, when the UN wanted to deal with him after he gassed the Kurds th US walked out on the security council vote and put a stop to it how much more do we need to hear!
October 27th, 2006 at 7:59 pmAre they going to sentence him to being the dictator of Iraq? Because he was much better at it than Bush is…and he killed fewer people.
October 27th, 2006 at 8:38 pmIt seems to me that announcing a verdict, whether for life in prison or the death sentence, is likely to result in increased violence from the insurgency. The question in my mind, is WHY the Bush administration would want that to happen before our elections?
October 28th, 2006 at 12:49 pmGuess BushCo can’t rely on Osama jumping out of the woodwork to scare the sheeple this time, so they’re propping up another of their homemade boogeymen one more time.
Depend on it, if the verdict is anything but “death by hanging”, it will be postponed (again) – until after the election.
How much farther into the quicksand must we sink?
October 28th, 2006 at 4:41 pm